In the city of Korca, on March 19th, 1909 was born Stefan Çilka, one of the first doctors who has worked in the service of health of the Nation. He took the first lessons in the American school of the honoured couple Kennedy in Korca. He was graduated from the American Technological Institute of Samokov in Bulgaria. After a competition, he continued the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sorbonne in France, where he graduated in 1936. In 1939, he was appointed a doctor in the Civil Hospital of Tirana. With the opening in Tirana of the Institute of Hygiene, Stefan Cilka was appointed there and worked, until his first pension. Stefan Cilka as a lecturer has led over 20 years the specialization of microbiologists and epidemiologists doctors, preparing the necessary textbooks for this purpose.
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